Lynne Warren an American curator and writer who worked from 1977 to 2020 at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago.
She frequently speaks and teaches about the history of Chicago art since the 1940s, with a focus on alternative, artist-run, and nonprofit spaces.
She has produced major scholarship on subjects including the Monster Roster, Hairy Who, and smaller movements within the genre of Chicago Imagism.
[7] A number of the exhibitions traveled nationally, including Alexander Calder: Form, Balance, Joy (2010) and H. C. Westermann (2001), which was accompanied by a catalogue raisonné.
She also curated solo exhibitions for artists including: Diane Simpson (2016), Jim Nutt (2010), Chris Ware (2005), Dan Peterman (2004), Robert Heinecken (1999), Nancy Chunn (1991), Jon Kessler (1987), Julia Wachtel (1987), and Kenneth Josephson (1983).